Remade with Rust
Starfire: self-hosted game-streaming client
A Rust rebuild of the open-source game-streaming client
Replaces: Moonlight
What is Starfire, the self-hosted game-streaming client?
Starfire is a Rust rebuild of the open-source game-streaming client Moonlight. It is the client. Comet is the host it pairs with, and Comet stays proprietary.
What Starfire replaces
Starfire is a self-hosted game-streaming client. It is the Rust rebuild of Moonlight, the open-source client people already use to play a game running on another machine.
Why Starfire is a self-hosted game-streaming client
What Starfire keeps from Moonlight
Starfire keeps the client half of a game stream. Moonlight is the client it replaces. The host on the other side of the pair is Comet.
Where Starfire fits
Starfire is the open client. Comet is the proprietary host. rusty_h264 and rusty-opus are the codecs a stream of this kind is built from.
Read more about Starfire
- All Remade with Rust rebuilds
- Freedom Guide
- Vision
- Comet — proprietary game-streaming host
- rusty_h264 — pure-Rust H.264 codec
- Learn article on Starfire
- Starfire on GitHub

